Accessing USB External Hard Drive

Still haven't found a solution or any advice on this issue.. Anyone?

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C. Mitchell
"C. M." <shadowlord1972@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:%23C91T0ISGHA.4616@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Greetings,

I have recently migrated to a new PC with Windows XP (Home Edition, SP2, Build 2600) from a defunct and non-working Windows 2000 system. I have several hard drives from the old system that I am trying to transfer files onto my new PC by using them as USB drives. The problem is that my new PC's Windows XP does not seem to like some of the drives. Particularily, it will not allow my to mount any of the FAT32 drives, and some of the NTFS drives. I have checked the Device Manager, and the drivers are all fine and working, I have also checked the drive's jumper settings, and they are all set correctly. The Disk Management MMC extension even detects the drive, detects that it's a FAT32 partition, detects it's size, and even that it's "healthy".. except that it calls it an "unknown partition" and will not let me mount it/assign a drive letter. I am at a loss about what to do. Any suggestions?

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C. Mitchell